Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-11

$lOO, 900.
Carpenters are locked out in Chicago
and on strike in Toronto and Brockton,
Mass. So keep away from those cities.
The cOOpers' unions will have national
convention at Detroit on September IL.
The carpenters at Brockton, Mass, have
been out on strike since August LIST to es-
tablish the nine hours.
The cooperative Steve Company, of
Bloomington, H., is a grand success so far,
and their goods stand high in the market.
The plumbers, caulkers and gasfitters
employed by the gas company at YouDgs-
town, Ohio, are out for an advance of %
cents per day.
The carpenters of BraddOcks, Pa, have
been successful in having the nine hour
system enforced in every carpenter shop
and planning mill in that city but one.
The Brotherhood of Painters and Decor
ators now has torty-two local unions,
which is far beyond the record of fanny other
newly formed national trade organization
for such short period of existence.
The leather workers OF Newark, n. j.,
are still locked out. For years the owners
ofthese tanneries have been in the habit of
diScharging workmen for being conspicuous
in their labor organizations.
The seventeenth annual convention of
the Ggarmakers' International Union will
be held September 10Th, in Binghamton,
n. Y. The convention will be one of the
largest ever held by the International
Union.
For nine weeks the carpenters of To-
ronto have been out to maintain the nine
hours, and not one union man has returned
TO work, OF "scabbed" it in that time.
Both sides are firm and stubborn, and the
latest adViees 90 to show that the employ
ers are now more disposed to meet the men.
The strike is likely soon to be settled
The Carpenter.
The men employed in the brewers of
Pittsburg have been organized into a
branch Of the National Brewers Union.
Fifty signed the roll at the first meeting
There are but about 100 of these men al
together in the beer breweries Of this vi
cinity, and it is expected that all will join
the organization at the next meeting
1.-The Arkansas Colony Association of
Chicago" is the name of a cooperative
movement recently organized in that city.
| The projectors are leading men of the car
penters, and belong to the unions or as
semblies. The scheme is to establish q
colony of 500 or 600 families in Arkansas
and to conduct production upon the CO.
operative plan. They have already Sc
cured an option on 1880 acres OF land
located in johnson, Sebastian and Craw-
| ford counties, on the line of the Little
| Rock and Fort Smith railroad, and the
pioneers are soon to move onto the
grounds.
| The boot and shoe manufacturers of
New England are much pleased over the
latest trade developments. Dealers are
| buying fewer high and more medium
priced goods. A year ago the prices rang
ed all the way from So 80 to 81, 30. Pop
ular prices are now between 81 p and 81
| for shoes.
Nearly 200 new manufacturing enter
prises have been started in New England
since January /. o. these twenty-six
were wooden mills, twenty-one metal
working concerns, eighteen paper mills,
seventeen machine shops, sixteen cotton
| factories, fourteen wood working concerns
and twelve hosiery factories
The monster steam hammer of Krupp,
! the German gunm0ker, is nearly 200 feet
high. The hammer falls or block of
metal weighing 20, 600 tons. One OF the
cross pieces bears an inscription, which,
| translated, reads: Let her 90, Fritz /"
| All access to the works is forbidden. The
horse power used is equal to 10000
There is very heavy demand for cotton
| ties from the south, and there is an in
creasing movement Of general hardware to
that section. One Pittsbura firm has an
order that will keep its immense establish
ment at work for four months An Ohio
firm expects al order for 5000 tons OF
/ ties.
A company with q capital of $500, 900
has leased fifteen miles Of coal land near
| Paris, Tex, and will open it at once.
Capitalists from East Saginaw, Mich, have
purchased two or three counties OF West
| Virginia mineral land to develop it.
The largest steel casting ever produced
in England has Just been cast at Sheffield.
/ IL weighs seyenty-tOns, and Is intended as
a tube of 13&-inch, 90 ton gun. The de-
mand for steel craft and shafts in Great
Britain is very heavy.
10 England convicts have been extern
sively engaged in building prisons. Since
1853 nearly 5000 cells have been erected
by them. The government estimates a
saving by this labor of S27S, 900, or 10 per
cent over outside labor.
The capital of the combined stove man.
ufactureTs of the United States is estimated
at SIS, 900, 600 The total product is $780,
600, 900 per amman. The Trust expects to
be able to earn dividends amounting to %
per cent
window-glass works are extending
throughout the West. The cost Of freight
| from Pittshurg is more than the cost OF the
ware in some cases. The Mexican demand
for glass is increasing yearly.
Nearly all the glass works in the coun'
try are receiving heavy orders, and some
| uiacturers think the demand will he
strong enough TO force an advance before
winter.
In English mills replacement OF a.
chinery is necessary every ten years. IN
American mills the machinery, being bet
ter made and lighter, runs much longer.
A Bessener steel plant will be erected at
Anthony City, Ark, ard large iron
fence mandatory will be established al
PlattsmOuth, Neb.
One hundred coke ovens will be built 81
Coaldale, Ala, and large steel msnufac'
turing plant will be located at North
Birmingham.
Five million dollars have been subscribed
te build a new town near Stevenson, Ala.
where manufacturing will be done on o
large scale.
The pluck-ne stores, against which the
Pennsylvania legislature raised its arm,
are still fourishipg throughout the state.
A good many strikes have recently been
| started to enforce the Semi-mOnthly pays
in this state as provided by 3 recent law.
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